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Thematic / Biographical series

34 Episodes 11 Series 4 Figures 2 Events 114 Books 96 Authors

This thematic/biographical era spans prehistory to modern political history, grouping episodes by topic or life to illuminate specific events, movements, and leadership. Series include "12 (or 13) Days of Christmas" (significant events from Dec 25–Jan 4, from early Christian history to African modernization), "America in 1968" (Vietnam, political upheaval, social change), "American Crusades" (Christianity’s influence on US foreign policy and warfare), "Amsterdam" (city’s rise from a 13th‑century fishing village to a financial hub), and "Australian Prime Ministers" (federal politics from 1901 onward). Sample episodes cover Britain’s greatest prime ministers, Viking history and popular culture, church architecture, French history in film, Rome’s worst emperor and Jacobite uprisings. Figures and topics discussed include Jeffrey Parker, Amani Reynos, Eva Perón’s secret burial (1955), poll taxes, Doggerland submergence, the Younger Dryas, Neanderthal extinction, and the Cretaceous–Paleogene event. Recommended books cited include The Geometry of Love, Face of Battle, History of the English‑Speaking Peoples, and A History of the World.

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2022

5 episodes

French History on Film

Oct 13, 2022

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host film critic Muriel Zagad to present “a history of France in ten …

Haunted London (Ep 4)

Jul 18, 2022

London Week · Part 4

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook walk listeners through a tightly focused ‘Hidden London’ tour around Newgate, Smithfi…

How Prime Ministers Fall

Jun 07, 2022

Recorded on the evening of 6 June, this special Rest Is History episode frames the Conservative confidence vote in Bori…

Oil: The Making of the Modern World

Mar 24, 2022

Oil · Part 1

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Helen Thompson about the central role of oil in modern geopolitics. T…

The Most Disastrous Party in History

Feb 21, 2022

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook compile and discuss a listener-sourced top ten of history's most disa…

2021

5 episodes

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the Rest Is History "Kings and Queens of England World Cup," focusing o…

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Series in this era

11 series

Historical figures

4 tagged

Historical events

2 tagged

Quaternary Ice Age (ongoing)

1 episode

Younger Dryas

1 episode

Books

114 tagged

Authors

96 tagged

Thematic / Biographical series

Episodes by year

2022

French History on Film

Haunted London (Ep 4)

How Prime Ministers Fall

Oil: The Making of the Modern World

The Most Disastrous Party in History

2021

Top Ten Eunuchs

Top Ten Mistresses

Climate & Weather

China

World Cup of Kings & Queens - Part 1

Series in this era

Jack the Ripper - The Whitechapel Murders

London's Golden Age

Dawn of the Samurai

Great Paintings from History

Great World Cup Saga

London Week

Oil

Royal Albert Hall Orchestral Shows

The Book Club

The Ku Klux Klan

World Cup of Kings and Queens

Historical figures

Armand D'Angor

Jeffrey Parker

John Klee

Mike Macbeth

Historical events

Quaternary Ice Age (ongoing)

Younger Dryas

Books

The Five

Dracula

Flashman (series )

Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution

Martin Chuzzlewit

Sherlock Holmes

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

The Great Gatsby

The Sign of Four

The Three Musketeers

1984

A Court of Thorns and Roses

A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) (series)

A Study in Scarlet

Adventures in Time: Nelson, a Hero of the Seas

Alexander to Actium: The Hellenistic Age

American Notes

An American Uprising

An Officer and a Spy

Anne of Gaiosteen

Biographies of William Gladstone and Winston Churchill

Black Tutors

Bleak House

Blitzt

Boswell's Presumptuous Task

Britain Against Itself

Citizens

City of Dreadful Delight

Conquest of New Spain

Count of China

Diary of Matteo Ricci

Disorder, Hard Times in the 21st Century

Dominion

Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races

Fifth Son

Frankenstein

From Hell

From Hell

From Hell (comic)

Global Crisis

Great Expectations

Guinness Book of Records

Hamnet

History of England